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It's an autocorrect fail. It should have said "I don't think anyone could say his style isn't distinctive." Anyways, edited my post.

That's an autocorrect fail. It should have said "isn't."

Well, I didn't use all capitals at least. I'm sure Sapko is a nice guy if you met him. I just can't be bothered with clickbait internet personality crap, so I don't watch it.

For everyone moaning about who is on it, I dont think anyone could say Hook's style isn't distinctive. I grew up listening to New Order and loved them right up until I saw them support the Chili Peppers in Dublin in 2002. They were awful. Snidey and couldn't give a toss. I couldn't listen to them after that. Melissa Auf Der Maur has her autobiography coming out next year so her publicist got her on the show no doubt. I always liked her solo stuff and although she hasn't done much musically since then having not been invited back to the Smashing Pumpkins as they've hired Peter Hook's son, I'd still be intrigued to watch. As for Nate Mendel, with 3 guitars in the Foo Fighters, who cares what the bass does? Exactly, nobody. Plus, they haven't released decent material for quite some time. Ultimately, nobody is going to have their taste catered for by such a generic programme. Besides, quite a lot of the people who you might want to hear from on such a programme are long since dead sadly.

Whomever awarded that 2020 player of whatever award must have exactly the taste I have come to expect from such things. It's a horrific tone (he's playing a Chowny so no surprises there), but it's exactly the kind of burpy cod jazz crap that should have been burned after the 80's. Say "Behs" all you want Danny, it's still insipid 70's lift music from The Towering Inferno. To quote the great James Coburn: "Don't think that just because you and Colonel Brandt are more enlightened than most officers that I hate you any less. I hate all officers. All the Stranskys, all the Treibigs, all the Iron Cross scavengers in the whole German army." That's how I feel about Internet personas, influencers, youtubers who do clickbait titled videos and worst of all, those who pretend to care about who they're interviewing but get things so amazingly wrong that it shows they've just not done their research and can't be bothered. We live in an age where being great at self promotion and shouting about it is better than having any form of groundbreaking talent. Sapko and his ilk are just the symptom, not the cause.

In the diary! So, for those of you who wanted it quieter next year... unlucky.

This isn't going to end well. Unless that is you simplify things by banging all the band members significant others. That's something that always sorts everything out and never has any negative consequences whatsoever.

Im glad that melted plastic whale shaped single cuts won't be something you'll be doing! The less of them the better. It was mainly just about say changing electronics. For example, Hamers are (mainly) DC35s and a EMG BTS system. They did a few explorers and if one were to want something more akin to that than say Gibson type pickups. That was really where I was going. Or wiring the dual outputs more like a Rick with one being stereo and the other mono as another example which if the bass remained passive isn't that difficult. Frankly, I think your work is fantastic and were I to be in the market, I'd definitely be up for ordering from you.

When times were hard and I had to downsize my bass collection, I rented it out to the US military to facilitate their extra judicial rendition programme.

I appreciate that @Basvarken you're a Gibson person. How custom are you prepared to go? Is the basses being active possible? Custom circuits? Is putting say a pair of EMG's in something that might be considered for example? It's just a question. They're spectacular instruments by the way.

I remember playing an old 50's era precision about 5 years ago. My friend had raved about how good it was. It cost at the time about 10 or 12 grand. Well, it was a piece of crap. The pickup was massively wooly and it was also clear to me that the action wasn't really going to come down in any way to a level I'd be happy with. I'm happy to say that he gets a great deal of joy out of it and of course I never said anything about my misgivings. Like everything you could say "you could buy however many basses I actually like for that!!" as a rebuttal, but in truth, it doesn't matter as long as it does it for you. I have basses I don't play much, but that's mainly because the projects I'm doing or have been doing don't suit them. Not because I'm trying to build up some massive collection to store in a temperature controlled, secirity guarded aircraft hanger.

Double post.

Yeah, I do remember it has a Neve preamp. Personally, I've never played a Dingwall that I liked the sound of, though I grant his did sound better than the usual personality free, insipid tone Dingwalls usually have. Not massively though.

Absolutely nothing. It's a standard 3 pickup Dingwall with active and passive circuit.

A great day and so many thanks to be given. Both the Paul's and Gary for organising, @nikon F for very kindly giving me a lift. Lastly, many thanks to @silverfoxnik for his more than generous comments on my playing. It was great to catch up with peeps, try new basses and meeting new people as these bashes always are.